Problem with psutil -- fresh install on Ubuntu 15 fails

Doing a fresh install on Ubuntu 15 and I get up to this step…

pip3 install --user -r pipeline/requirements.txt

…and I get:

x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -W$

psutil/_psutil_linux.c:12:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory

compilation terminated.

error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command /usr/bin/python3.5 -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-kgtc3zry/psutil/setup.py';exec(comp$
Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 309, in run
    requirement_set.install(install_options, global_options, root=options.root_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 1436, in install
    requirement.install(install_options, global_options, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 707, in install
    cwd=self.source_dir, filter_stdout=self._filter_install, show_stdout=False)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/util.py", line 716, in call_subprocess
    % (command_desc, proc.returncode, cwd))
pip.exceptions.InstallationError: Command /usr/bin/python3.5 -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-k$

Doing apt-get install python-dev before running all this didn’t help. Looks like something may be up with psutil?

[ivan]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pip/+bug/1518023 is now fixed, so the python3-pip on Ubuntu 15.10 uses python3.4.

[falconkirtaran]

All these versions are old now, but the installation is working well on Ubuntu 17.04 with psutil 5.2.2 and python 3.5.3 (with no venv or anything like that).